Professor Richard Holmes, a British military historian featured in the NOVA film "Medieval ... castle was a residence as well as a private fortress. Most of the time the castle operated as a small ...

Which, in turn, means that everything is dependent on the skills of the workforce – a small ... the castle to see their theories tried out and put into practice. Above all, building a medieval ...

Situated on the banks of the Vltava river, the town was built around a 13th-century castle with Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque elements. It is an outstanding example of a small central European ...